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Introduction to Trauma-Informed Care
This course introduces trauma-informed care as a framework and set of practices for mental health providers who work in community mental health and outreach programs. The course begins with the neurochemical stress response system and explores how traumatic experiences are perceived by an individual and may lead to motivating (as well as debilitating) responses. Next, the course details how providers can use their knowledge of the effects of trauma to inform the ways they communicate with clients, understand client behavior, and provide support, including with ...
Person-Centered Care in ACT and FACT: Addressing Client Preferences & Supporting Self-Determination
Service recipients in public mental health often experience stigma related to living with a mental illness, and may also experience coercive treatment approaches that undermine their sense of agency, such as being monitored and pressured to follow provider-defined treatment plans (Choy-Brown et al., 2020). Evidence suggests that coercive methods in mental health services tend to elicit client disengagement and hopelessness, while person-centered and recovery-oriented approaches support clients’ self-determination, self-efficacy, and well-being. This training identifies recovery-oriented principles, such as targeting a broad range of life goals ...
Clinical Supervision During Difficult Times
During this training, attendees will have an opportunity to explore some of the factors necessary to constitute a difficult time in history and during current times. This historical framing will be rooted in how it uniquely affects clinical supervision. Foundational to this exploration and framing will be an interrogation of the inter-connectedness and impact of their own identities and social locations to acknowledge how one’s personal contexts’ influences their role as a clinical supervisor especially during current difficult times. Ultimately, attendees will be able to ...
Core Competencies in Clinical Supervision
During this training, attendees will have an opportunity to explore with the core competencies of clinical supervision. Foundational to this exploration will be an interrogation of the inter-connectedness and impact of their own identities and social locations to acknowledge how one’s personal contexts influence their role as a clinical supervisor. The training will also provide an opportunity for attendees to assess their understanding of the connections between core clinical supervision competences and how they are influenced by personal experiences. Ultimately, attendees will be poised to ...
Making Change Work in State-Funded Behavioral Health: Practical Tools for Leading and Navigating Change
State-funded behavioral health programs operate in complex, high-stakes environments, and community needs don’t pause while organizations adapt. Change initiatives often increase stress because the system around them isn’t aligned to support it. This interactive training equips both behavioral health managers and frontline behavioral health clinicians with practical, realistic tools to implement and navigate change in state-funded behavioral health settings—including public agencies, nonprofit providers, and contracted partners. This training will explore why change efforts stall in behavioral health systems (and how to prevent predictable failure points). Participants ...
Honing Your Assessment of Suicide and Non-suicidal Self-Injury
Over the last two decades, the suicide rate in the United States has continued to increase, and disparities in who dies by suicide has widened. Recently, various communities have experienced increased distress related to economic, political, and interpersonal stressors, increasing the need to effectively assess for risk of suicide and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). In spite of this increased pressure to support clients, predicting suicidal behavior remains very challenging. This training will help mental health clinicians build their skills for assessing risk for suicide and non-suicidal ...
Field-Based Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT): Using Evidence-Based Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (mOUD) in the Field
Opioid use disorder (OUD) continues to represent a significant public health crisis in the United States, with substantial morbidity and mortality driven by overdose and limited access to effective treatment. Traditional clinic-based models of care often fail to engage individuals who face structural, social, and logistical barriers to treatment access. Field-based delivery of medications for opioid use disorder (mOUD) represents an emerging, evidence-based approach to expanding access to recovery-oriented resources and improving social service engagement among high-risk populations. This training will provide a comprehensive overview ...
Completing ACT and FACT Member Outcome Measures: Foundational Skills for Providers
This training is designed for California providers delivering Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) and Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (FACT). It provides a detailed overview of ACT and FACT client outcome measures required by the state of California, including the purpose and format of each measure and strategies for completing measures efficiently and effectively. The training also discusses how outcome measures can benefit treatment planning and client care, as well as best practices for communicating with clients about outcome measures.
ACT and FACT Team Leader Learning Community
Welcome to the California ACT and FACT Team Leader Learning Community, a resource and discussion page that complements the California ACT and FACT Team Leader Learning Exchange bi-weekly meetings. Joining this Learning Community offers access to the Team Leader Learning Exchange Zoom meetings. This page can be used to access resources, engage in discourse and share best practices with other Team Leaders, and stay in-the-know about relevant developments.
Safety and Crisis Intervention and Prevention
This course provides participants with practical skills and knowledge to prevent, recognize, and respond to crises in the field. It compares situational awareness in the office and the field, with best practices that span across both settings, and ways of recognizing escalating situations in both. The course also enables participants to employ de-escalation techniques and self-regulation strategies and incorporates best practices for maintaining safety, managing crises, and supporting both consumers and staff during high-risk encounters. Note: CE Credits for this course will be available in June. ...
